[Goanet] So much for independent Goa !

2011-12-18 Thread Antonio Menezes
Let us hail Salazar for the way he behaved mulishly till the Portuguese army surrendered on the 19th December, 1961. According to O Heraldo, Dec 18, General Ramalho Eanes, ex President of Portugal (1976 - 1986 ) , who had served in Goa as a junior military officer, states that Goa was ripe to

[Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread Roland Francis
A woman arrived at a party and scanning the guests, spotted an attractive man standing alone. She approached him, smiled and said, Hello. My name is Carmen. That's a beautiful name, he replied. Is it your given name? No, she replied. As a matter of fact, I gave it to myself. It represents

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Goa Uses Anniversary to Reimagine Itself (Naresh Fernandes, in NYT)

2011-12-18 Thread Goanet Reader
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/goa-uses-anniversary-to-reimagine-itself/ Goa Uses Anniversary to Reimagine Itself By NARESH FERNANDES An old stone fort in Goa built by the Portuguese, in this 1927 file photo. Five decades ago on Sunday, India's armed forces

[Goanet] Song for the day.

2011-12-18 Thread Gabe Menezes
Wham - Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhg33LNL2ts -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first

[Goanet] Hypocracy

2011-12-18 Thread John Gomes
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The Winter session is progressing at a hypocritical pace.With so many vital Bills to pass and matters to discuss,both houses are stalled again on the matter of conflict of interest of Home Minister Chidaram's alleged indiscretions. Without condoning the HM,I want to ask our

[Goanet] Strictly - Last night's winners...

2011-12-18 Thread Gabe Menezes
Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani - American Smooth - Strictly Come Dancing Final 2011 An American smooth danced to a Vienese Waltz! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

Re: [Goanet] International Conference on 'GOA 1961 AND BEYOND' - A Citizen Oriented Report

2011-12-18 Thread floriano
Citizens of Goa staged a SILENT protest at the Inaugural function of the International Conference on 'Goa 1961 and Beyond' held at the University of Goa today, 18 Dec 2011 to mark the celebrations of 50 years of Goa's so called Liberation from the Portuguese. In all around 20 citizens of Goa

[Goanet] Sonia Gandhi in Goa – Part II (Report with video II)

2011-12-18 Thread JoeGoaUk
  Sonia Gandhi in Goa – Part II  (Report with video II) Updated blog: http://joegoauk-pointofview.blogspot.com/2011/12/sonia-gandhi-in-goa-171211.html   The meeting was to start at 4.30pm at Campal grounds but Sonia Gandhi along with the dignitaries arrive at 5.30pm.  There were people sitting

[Goanet] Strictly - Last night's winners...

2011-12-18 Thread Gabe Menezes
Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani - American Smooth - Strictly Come Dancing Final 2011 An American smooth danced to a Vienese Waltz! Sorry forgot to give you the link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2Z5Faozqw -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Fw: CHRISTmas Walking Pilgrimage - Please treat this as a personal invitation

2011-12-18 Thread Con Menezes
Subject: CHRISTmas Walking Pilgrimage - Please treat this as a personal invitation Join The CHRISTmas Walking Pilgrimage

[Goanet] Goa's Liberation - Some Portuguese media views

2011-12-18 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Some links from Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter of Sunday 18 Nov. 2011 at www.goanvoice.org.uk Goa independent? 18 Dec: Publico (Portugal). A book is being promoted, with full page advertisements, as a celebration of the golden anniversary of the separation between Goa and Portugal, marking 50

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Didn't appreciate this one! At least, if I wanted this kind of humour I wouldn't visit Goanet, but go elsewhere. Kitem reh baba Roland? You're capable of much better. Leave cheap cut-and-paste to acknowledged 'experts' like me! FN On 17 December 2011 01:57, Roland Francis

[Goanet] Goa - Hawaii.

2011-12-18 Thread eric pinto
Goa and Hawaii  are on the same latitude - 15 Degrees North  ! -- Hawaii Goa are both tourist destinations and exotic fruit would do well here in Goa too Some work on Kokum is already afoot in Goa but on a

Re: [Goanet] So much for independent Goa !

2011-12-18 Thread floriano
It is a pity that the Portuguese could not trashout the slavish mentality of Goans including that of the writer below who has no iota of self esteem and pride. as a GOAN and who will always but always remain a slave of the COLONIZERS. Cheers floriano goasuraj - Original Message -

[Goanet] World Champions?

2011-12-18 Thread Gabe Menezes
Santos vs Barcelona 0-4 - All Goals Highlights [18.12.2011] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp_P8CNRAgc -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support

[Goanet] Braz Menezes's ' Just Matata'

2011-12-18 Thread Mervyn Elsie Maciel
Hi Roland, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your excellent Review of Braz's book. Hope others will be encouraged to read it(JM) too. Mervyn(Maciel) --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

[Goanet] Khoim lipla to bhizudd Savio fernandes?

2011-12-18 Thread SOTER
We once again put out our red alert for some coward called Savio Fernandes who tried to expose others in his post on goanet -LOOK CLOSELY WHO BASHES THE REGIONAL PLAN - and is now shy of exposing himself. Why? Is he fearing that the real truth will come before the public? The Goanet Admin is

[Goanet] 50 YEARS FROM A SHINNING BOWL TO A DUST BIN

2011-12-18 Thread SOTER
Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! We have been liberated of our commune lands and all the sand, sea, forests, khazans, rivers, springs. We have been liberated to see our villages torn apart by gated projects and hotels, farm houses. We have been liberated of our view to a beautiful horizon

[Goanet] The stones and Indian

2011-12-18 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Those stones will come to haunt India in more ways than a billion people in multiple ways can imagine. http://tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=Ne241211Shockingly.asp ++ vjp --- Protect Goa's

Re: [Goanet] So much for independent Goa !

2011-12-18 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Floriano, You are getting caught up in your rhetoric! Please tell us if you have any reasons or logical argument to question the arguments of Antonio Menezes. Just cursing his supposed slavish mentality or what you claim to be no iota of self-esteem and pride doesn't convince me that you are

[Goanet] Balm for our angst on what India Democracy is/can be

2011-12-18 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Some time back I had mentioned Pavan Varma in a post. In the following video we get to hear Ashis and Pavan. Ashis Nandy Pavan Varma at THiNK 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwG0vnGBaw ++ vjp ---

[Goanet] Four on Mario (Tehelka online)

2011-12-18 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Four on Mario: Gerson Da Cunha, Maria Aurora Couto, Sarnath Banerjee, and Remo Fernandes http://tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=hub241211MARIO.asp ++ vjp --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

[Goanet] Annual rituals

2011-12-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
Every year about this time we get to witness the ritual of blaming others for our problems and the casting of slurs against India and other Indians. These tired old useless rants are invariably great hits with a significant proportion of the readership, presumably because of ignorance,

Re: [Goanet] Goa - 50 years of colonization (Part II)

2011-12-18 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - For Part 1, go here - For my first post on this topic, see - http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2011-December/216487.html Part II Expectedly, the hogwash about Goa at 50 has started oozing from all quarters  of the Indian media. For instance, this by Rajdeep

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread roland . francis
Knew it was a mistake the moment I clicked 'Send'. Was surprised to actually see it on GN two days later! May be the GN admin in question had more regard for me than I deserve. Roland Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile

[Goanet] For Goan: Help your friendly Padcur/Padre curé (parish priest), Bhot-cur, Imam-cur

2011-12-18 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Help your friendly Padcur/Padre curé (parish priest), Bhot-cur, Imam-cur do a second take on the word/s they liberally use. Cure those among them who got waylaid We have here the OCCUPIED BISHOPblog. I DIDN'T START OUT TO BE SO IN RETIREMENT. HOW FRANTIC CAN YOU GET WALKING THE DOG AND TAKING OUT

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Moral of the story: you can blame Goanet for *your* mistakes! Thanks for having the courage of admitting this (at least the first part) publicly. FN On 19 December 2011 01:48, roland.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Knew it was a mistake the moment I clicked 'Send'. Was surprised to actually see it

[Goanet] Goa's Golden Extravaganza

2011-12-18 Thread Goanet A-C-E!
Goa's Golden Extravaganza Having completed 50 years of Goa’s liberation, its time to celebrate our culture…to celebrate our language Konkani and to celebrate ourselves! IMPACT is proud to celebrate Goa’s 50 years of liberation through music and dance. For the 1st time in Goa, a concept

[Goanet] Goa news for December 19, 2011

2011-12-18 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** I salute Goa and Goans for their spirit: Sonia Gandhi - Times of India inute speech, recalled with pride, the Gandhi family's contribution to Goa; how when Goa was liberated on December

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (17Dec11)

2011-12-18 Thread alexyz fernandes
Sonia G. 50 Yrs ago your Grandfather-in-law Liberated Goans. Now it's your Govts. Outlaws like the RP2021... That you need to Liberate Goa from! To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread J. Colaco jc
Frederick FN Noronha wrote thus to Roland Francis: Moral of the story: you can blame Goanet for *your* mistakes! Thanks for having the courage of admitting this (at least the first part) publicly. FN COMMENT (personal statement): I don't blame Goanet for my mistakes. I dont blame anyone else

[Goanet] Fw: Misty Moonlight !

2011-12-18 Thread eric pinto
! An extra chip on the sun deprived shoulder of this now transplanted far northern quarter's resident.  We here watch the rays dim and soften after the summer solstice,  resigned to the inevitable winter reversal: it arrives on tuesday, with sunset at four thirty.  Twilight lasts longer than

[Goanet] Fw: A tricky exercise (video)

2011-12-18 Thread Con Menezes
Subject: A tricky exercise (video) Hi All Another fun coordination exercise for you today. http://www.movingwithmikedvd.com/1/high-knees.html You will probably watch the video and think it seems easy, but when you try it you might change your mind. Take a look and see how you do. -

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Frederick FN Noronha wrote: Moral of the story: you can blame Goanet for *your* mistakes!  Thanks for having the courage of admitting this (at least the first  part) publicly. FN On 19 December 2011 01:48,  roland.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Knew it was a mistake the moment I clicked 'Send'.

[Goanet] Freedom Thoughts

2011-12-18 Thread Eugene Correia
An edited version has appeared on the opinion page of OHeraldo. I am surprised that the column is titled, Impending Gloom. I only asked the question and further stated that Goans are unsure what the dawn of each will bring into their lives. I had also sent the editor a photo,but it didn't appear.

Re: [Goanet] The Liberation Quiz

2011-12-18 Thread PAES
From: PAES bennetp...@yahoo.com To: Goa Net goa...@goanet.org Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:05 AM Subject: The Liberation Quiz The POT says: “liberation”, the KETTLE wonders! (An extract from my book: “SIMPLY MY WAY”) www.bennetpaes.com   Quote:   From the days of Mahatma Gandhi’s

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Christmas Day

2011-12-18 Thread Jude Botelho
18-Dec-2011   Dear Friend,   We know from experience that we are most relaxed and comfortable when we feel at home with people, situations and events. Christmas is a 'homely' feast, God being at home with us. The name given to him is Emmanuel -God-with-us! Are we 'at home' with God? To be at

Re: [Goanet] Goa - Hawaii.

2011-12-18 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
On 18 December 2011 18:04, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote: Goa and Hawaii  are on the same latitude - 15 Degrees North  ! -- Hawaii Goa are both tourist destinations and exotic fruit would do well

[Goanet] So much for independent Goa

2011-12-18 Thread Antonio Menezes
Floriano-bab, I am bit confused. I quote verbatim some of the things General Ramalho Eanes said in that interview. Question: In 1958 you went to Goa Ramalho Eanes (RE) In Goa I learnt a lot of good and bad things...Goa met all the conditions because we have made something there which we had

Re: [Goanet] Thank God Its Friday

2011-12-18 Thread Alfred de Tavares
Caught with your dungarees downOld Boy, happens to the best of us... Anyway our young Rico was due a few mea culpae...right in'it? Velho Chacha Will get back yo you eric with a few questions my brood has directed to you. From: fredericknoro...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:17:59

[Goanet] We gained liberation but lost our identity (oHERALDO)

2011-12-18 Thread Arwin Mesquita
* http://74.127.61.178/herald/Details.aspx?id=2953boxid=174850390uid=dat=12/19/2011 * *We gained liberation but lost our identity* Dear Goans and all those who truly love Goa from the bottom of their hearts, a lot has been said, read and heard about our almost 500 year tryst with history. We

Re: [Goanet] 50 YEARS FROM A SHINNING BOWL TO A DUST BIN

2011-12-18 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
When was it a shinning bowl and how? FN On 18 December 2011 22:56, SOTER so...@bsnl.in wrote: It has only taken 50 years to turn a shinning bowl into a dust bin. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

[Goanet] MANY REASONS WHY GOANS FEEL GOA IS NOT LIBERATED BUT RE-COLONIZED BY INDIA

2011-12-18 Thread floriano
THIS MAY BE CONSIDERED AS THE RAISING OF THE MANY BLACK FLAGS ON THIS GOA'S 19TH. DAY OF DECEMBER, 2011 Apart from the promises of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru since 1954 that Goans shall not be 'coerced to join the Indian Union against their wishes, the following many reasons support the